OBJECTIVE Recruitment of patients into time sensitive clinical trials in intensive care units (ICU) poses a significant challenge. Enrollment is limited by delayed recognition and late notification of research personnel. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of electronic screening (septic shock sniffer) regarding enrollment into a time sensi...

【Key Words】income and sickness shock, risk coping measures, assets, Vietnamese farm household 【JEL codes】 D91, O16 【Abstract】 Income variability and additional medical consumption should be major shocks for farm households in developing countries. This paper investigates risk coping measures against these different types of shocks using Vietnamese Living Standard Measurement Study. Estimating r...

OBJECTIVE to investigate whether there is a relationship between plasmatic levels of nitrate, body temperature, and blood pressure values in patients with sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock. METHOD prospective observational study performed in a Brazilian hospital; data were collected from July to December 2009. Thirty blood samples were obtained from a total of 29 patients. Blood samples ...

In this Letter we use the unprecedented spatial resolution of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory to carry out, for the first time, a measurement of the post-shock electron temperature and proper motion of a young SNR, specifically to address questions about the post-shock partition of energy among electrons, ions, and cosmic rays. The expansion rate, 0.100% ± 0.025%yr, and inferred age, ∼1000 yr, of...

[1] The most energetic planetary collisions attain shock pressures that result in abundant melting and vaporization. Accurate predictions of the extent of melting and vaporization require knowledge of vast regions of the phase diagrams of the constituent materials. To reach the liquid-vapor phase boundary of silica, we conducted uniaxial shock-and-release experiments, where quartz was shocked t...

Measurement of gastric wall PCO2 (PgCO2) by tonometric method has emerged as an attractive option for estimating visceral perfusion during circulatory shock. However, gastric acid secretion obfuscates the tonometric measurement. We, therefore, investigated the option of measuring PCO2 in the esophagus to minimize these restraints. Hemorrhagic shock was induced in five Sprague-Dawley rats, and f...

In this paper, the interaction of a transonic, turbulent axisymmetric jet with the workpiece is studied. Numerical simulations are carried out using an explicit, coupled solution algorithm with solution-based mesh adaptation. Effect of gas pressure and nozzle standoff distance on structure of the supersonic shock pattern is studied. Experiments are carried out to study the effect of processing ...

Featured Article: Marbach EP, Weil MH. Rapid enzymatic measurement of blood lactate and pyruvate: use and significance of metaphosphoric acid as a common precipitant. Clin Chem 1967;13:314 –25. The measurement of oxygen deficits, which is reflected in the onset and severity of lactic acidosis, has had wide application in exercise physiology. Measurement of blood or plasma lactate, specifically ...

background and objectives: hydrocortisone is widely used in septic shock cases resistant to fluid and vasopressor therapy. it may result in increased blood pressure and survival. however the efficacy is no established among patients with severe burn and septic shock. accordingly it was assessed in this study. materials and methods: the patients older than 14 years of age with resistant septic s...

a b s t r a c t a 36-year-old male patient with posttraumatic cervical cord damage and resultant quadriparesis, demonstrated hypotension and periods of bradycardia. for most of his two-month stay in the intensive care unit (icu), he was dependent on dopamine support to maintain hemodynamic stability. keeping in mind evidence from the literature, that electrostimulation of acupoints neiguan (pc ...